Welfare queen
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A welfare queen is a pejorative phrase used in the United States to refer to people who are accused of collecting excessive welfare payments through fraud or manipulation. Reporting on welfare fraud began during the early 1960s, appearing in general interest magazines such as Readers Digest. The term entered the American lexicon during Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential campaign when he described a "welfare queen" from Chicago's South Side.
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Welfare
- Criticisms of welfare
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/Food Stamps
- Welfare's effect on poverty
- Welfare
- Welfare fraud
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